Tennesse to Macedonia to Serve

  Здраво!! (Zdravo or hello!) HAPPY THANKSGIVING YALL !! Јас сум многу благодарна!!! This week I realized there is SO much to be grateful for even if life is hard and everything seems to be going wrong :))) Last pday I got all my fingerprinting done for my fbi clearance and visa so hopefully that gets moving along but I'm learning to love it here!! Yesterday I reached my 100th day as a missionary and 1/6th of the way done with my mission which is crazy ! Nothing too crazy happened this week but we had a lot of lessons. A lot of our people aren't really progressing or are going to jail ??? (Long story but one of our friends who was on date to get baptized next weekend told us this week he's in the middle of a court case sooo umm it's been interesting). BUT God is so good!!! We've taught the Plan of Salvation so many times this week and it's just reminded me of how much God loves us !! I am so grateful for the perfect plan that God has for us and I know when we fo...

  Здраво!! Hey y'all it's been another good week here in Tennessee! First off, yesterday I hit my 3 month mark of being a missionary and today I hit my 3 week mark of being in field. Kinda wild... Also like 10 minutes after I sent my email last week I got an email saying my visa got rejected:(((( pretty much now they're just requiring fbi clearance level so I have to go get finger printed today and then we should be in the clear. We invited our friend Valentino to be baptized this week and he said yes! He's awesome and it was exciting to see him move forward with his faith. Our friend Daniel, who we recently started teaching with the Zone leaders, has an upcoming baptism but has been struggling with the word of wisdom and giving up vape :( send prayers his way !! He has a desire to learn and change and his comprehension of the scriptures is amazing, he's just struggling to keep going.  We had zone conference this week which was so fun!! At the very end my mission Pr...

  Hey y'all !!! This week was full of miracles! We have 3 people who all decided to be baptized within 2 days! We've found people that are so prepared for the gospel, people who even found us! Even if it's hard and exhausting to be a missionary, I am constantly reminded of the goodness of God.  One of our friends, Joseph, is getting ready to be baptized and he is hilarious. He was taught by the missionaries 5 years ago when he was still in high-school and now he's taking lessons again. Our first lesson back with him again he really wanted to say the opening prayer and we of course said he could. BUT we hadn't taught him how to pray so we had no idea what to expect when he just started praying. He started off his prayer with "Hey it's me jo, but you know that '' and he ended his prayer with "end scene" so it took us back a little bit ahahah but his prayer was so good and so sincere !! In another lesson we had he even told us he was going to...

 HOWDY YALL !!! I made it to the great state of Tennessee Wednesday evening ! I am so excited to be here ! The work here is amazing. My companion is Hermana Tornow (no I am not in fact in a Spanish area although I was terrified I was when I heard that hahah. She is just waiting for Urguay to open up:)). I love her so much already and we get along great. We're in Murfreesboro in a ysa branch right by the MTSU campus and about 30 minutes outside of Nashville (I think?? lol). Our branch is definitely quirky but it's so fun to be with the YSA. They had 2 baptisms the weekend before I got here and we have one more person who is getting baptized in a couple of weeks. We are sooo busy tho which is awesome!  Funny moment: after teaching someone at the church who smelled extremely strong of cigarette smoke, we decided to open the window to air the room out. Unfortunately that window hadn't been opened in I guess forever and it completely shattered hahaha so that was interesting but ...

  Здраво вие !! Well, well, well, the time has finally come. After 10 long, painstakingly boring, yet difficult weeks, I am ready to ајде чао from the at home MTC. It is starting to feel a little bit surreal that pretty soon I'll be kicking it in the south, teaching the word of God and loving his children there. In exactly one week I'll be flying into Nashville, kinda wild. It's difficult to put my life in God's hands sometimes and trust that he knows better where I need to be, but I'm trying to have faith because he is an all knowing God. I know he loves us and is aware of us, and so we have no reason to fear. There's a line from The Chosen that 10/10 describes my feelings about this: "I actually don't understand most of this, just pieces, here and there when good things happen. But, the rest, I am just following." So, while I certainly don't understand everything yet, I have faith that God knows and that I will be okay if I follow him, whethe...

  hey hey hey !! SO, I was supposed to finish my MTC classes this Saturday night !! Yay!! Except for that, that isn't happening anymore ahaha. As if 9 weeks in the MTC wasn't already long enough, they added an extra week of classes for Сестра Chamberlain and I since our reassignment leaves a week later than the Elder's in our district... I guess the Lord knew we really just needed some extra practice haha. So if you so feel the desire, say a little prayer for me that I'll have motivation to sit on zoom for an extra week :) The language is a struggle as always, but looking back I can definitely see my improvement from week one. It's frustrating at times because I know that really, for all intents and purposes, the language doesn't matter, and yet I have to spend almost all my time on it.  I was frustrated for a long time because I felt like I was already struggling to teach in English so I didn't want yet another obstacle for me or for the people that I'm...

  Здраво !! At this point it feels as if all the weeks are the same, but I think I'm on week eight ahah.  It's crazy to think that I'll be done with the MTC in a week and a half and then will be flying out to Nashville in 3 weeks because at this point it doesn't even feel like I'll ever leave home, so it may be a rude awakening :))) Unexciting, but exciting to me, events that happened this week:  -I got my hair dyed darker :'/ so that the blonde won't grow out horribly on my mission. Tbh you can't tell that much tho bc my hairstylist added more blonde pieces to the front so that I can still feel somewhat blonde ahah -We moved !! My parents new house is finally done being built and so we've spent pretty much the entirety of this week unpacking, which just meant a lot of service for me and not as much time studying so I can't complain too much hah -I did finally get correct flights, only after 5 tries hah and so I will officially be flying out of h...